moose antlers
mom liked the mew gulls
on the banks of Horseshoe - no moose in sight right now :(
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more hiking around Horseshoe Lake
mom and dad relaxing on the train ride to Denali
one of the black bears at the zoo (all the animals are orphaned or injured)
time to get up - yawn
this grizzly was resting too (this one was raised with the polar bear at the zoo)
another wild animal
the polar bear was resting
mug shot of an alpaca
tiger - they are arctic tigers from Asia (really pretty)
Alaska Zoo - this bear was tuckered out (look at the claws on that grizzly)
leaving Whittier - the longest train/car tunnel in the world - only one lane so we had to wait for the trian to get out first
so a few decades ago Robert Burns Glacier (left) and Portage Glacier (right) touched - but did not mix
mom at Portage Glacier
jagged blue
pretty blue glow
wow - look at it all
glacial ice up close
alligator iceberg
look at the deep blue
pretty glacier blue (compressed ice does that)
jagged ridges of the glacier
looking at ice
wide angle view of the glacier
thousands of years of snow (now it's ice, but still)
first look at Portage Glacier
everythings melting in July (but this valley gets at least 40 ft of snow in winter!)
this iceberg was a "shooter" a couple days before (means it broke off below water and "shot" up)
mom on the boat with a chunk of ice
the glacier you do see is called Robert Burns Glacier
first look at Portage Lake (you can't see Portage Glacier from here)
look...he found more to read
mom and dad on Turnagin Arm - it was cloudy, but still picturesque
mountains dump right into the ocean
so many pretty sights
the chunks of ice in front are icebergs broken off from glacier
think our whale has friends
the birds flying overhead gave away the whales location
our captain was informed of whale activity just south of our course, so we headed down to check things out
it cleared up to be a beautiful day
salmon (look closely)
another whale we saw later
we stayed watching them for quite awhile
they were cooperative feeding and putting on quite a show
we figured out it was actually 3 humpback whales
another mountain goat
mountain goat
